Owner complaint 11765039: KIA K5 2023

Owner complaint, unverified, from NHTSA Owner Complaints

Published by NHTSA: Sep 17, 2026
Manufacturer: Kia America, Inc.
NHTSA ID: 11765039
Applies to, as stated by NHTSA: KIA K5 2023
Component, as stated by NHTSA: ELECTRICAL SYSTEM; UNKNOWN OR OTHER

Text of the owner complaint

My 2023 Kia K5 GT has an intermittent and unpredictable audio defect which the vehicle suddenly and spontaneously produces an extremely loud static-like noise through all speakers in the car, immediately upon starting the vehicle. This is not related to the radio, car play, phone connection, weather, etc. Adjusting the volume dial does not effect the issue either, for example. Shutting the car ...

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Date of incident: 2026-09-13

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For the 2022 Kia Telluride

Ignored

Relevance of 2% is under one half, so the notice is ignored whatever the other figures say.

Vehicle relevance: 2%
Attention: 24%
Interrupt probability: 20%

Importance to this owner: 0.1 of 4, none
Vehicle area the notice is about: None

This owner complaint does not appear to warrant attention for this vehicle. Owner complaints are unverified reports.

Decided by jev-1.13.0 in 155 ms from 1,751 input tokens. Jev returns these figures and nothing else. It gives no reasons, and none are written for it here. The figures describe how relevant the notice is, not the condition of any vehicle.

Checked by code against NHTSA's fields

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YesNHTSA names this make
NoNHTSA names this model
n/aNHTSA lists model year 2022 for this model

The same notice, every vehicle

Relevance	Attention	Interrupt	State
2%	24%	20%	Ignored
1%	13%	15%	Ignored
1%	14%	17%	Ignored
1%	15%	19%	Ignored
1%	20%	20%	Ignored
1%	18%	18%	Ignored
1%	16%	19%	Ignored
1%	16%	18%	Ignored
1%	11%	14%	Ignored
1%	23%	25%	Ignored
1%	13%	14%	Ignored
1%	17%	22%	Ignored
1%	14%	20%	Ignored
1%	17%	22%	Ignored
1%	13%	19%	Ignored
1%	15%	17%	Ignored

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